Sykes, Brigadier General Sir Percy, and Miss Ella Sykes

Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia

London: Macmillan, 1920 Sykes was acting consul in Kashgar in 1915 and the first portion, written by his sister Ella, deals with their travels through Chinese Turkestan and acrossing Tien Shan mountains. The second portion, written by Sir Percy, deals with the geography, history, and ethnography of the peoples of Kashgar and the Pamirs. The recipient, Sir Arthur Keith, was a noted anthropologist and curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1932, he was appointed head of the Buckston Brown Research Farm at Downe, near Darwin’s erstwhile residence First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated with photographs. Folding map in pocket. Pp. xii, 340. Errata slip after p. xii. Original black cloth, upper board blocked in red and black. Some rubbing, else very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf “To Sir Arthur Keith with much regard from Percy Sykes 1932”. Yakushi S398

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